Articles providing critical insights and analysis on monetary policy issues impacting the U.S. economy and its deep financial and economic relationship with Mexico.
Southwest Economy
Podcast: Lagging productivity gains restrain Mexico’s economic prospects
Dallas Fed economists Sewon Hur and Pia Orrenius discuss how improving productivity could propel Mexico beyond the ranks of middle-income nations.
May 20, 2024
Dallas Fed Economics
How global oil sanctions lowered Russian oil export prices
The decline in Russian oil export revenue since January 2022 was achieved by reducing the Russian export price rather than the volume of Russian oil exports.
May 14, 2024
Southwest Economy
Mexico’s productivity woes limit nearshoring, growth potential
Industrial policy reform, nearshoring and a deeper Mexico–U.S. partnership could provide tailwinds for Mexican economic growth. Whether Mexico can harness the full potential of such transformative change is less clear.
April 16, 2024
Understanding the evolving relationship between the United States and Mexico
Remarks by Roberto Coronado at the Western Hemispheric Trade Center Annual Conference at Texas A&M International University in Laredo.
April 12, 2024
Mexico’s economy shows early signs of slowing
The Mexican economy is expected to moderate in 2024, following the trend of the U.S. economy. As job growth slows and unemployment ticks up in the U.S., this could affect the flow of remittances, curtailing consumption growth in Mexico.
April 09, 2024
Dallas Fed Economics
Disparate supply-side forces gave U.S. economy an edge
The U.S. economy boasts robust growth and slowing inflation despite the highest interest rates in two decades. Such performance isn’t common globally, especially among other advanced economies, revealing crucial differences in the fundamental factors driving inflation and growth.
March 26, 2024
Southwest Economy
Development bank funds border infrastructure to aid U.S.–Mexico trade
Calixto Mateos, former managing director of the North American Development Bank, discusses his work at the NADBank and its role enhancing trade.
March 22, 2024
Demographic Transition, Industrial Policies and Chinese Economic Growth
This paper builds a unified framework to quantitatively examine how demographic transition and industrial policies have contributed to China’s economic growth in the past five decades.
February 07, 2024
Mexico’s economy shows mixed signals toward end of 2023
Mexico’s economy likely grew more than 3 percent in 2023 as the proxy for monthly GDP increased for the ninth consecutive month in November.
January 19, 2024
Dallas Fed Economics
U.S. 30-year mortgage predominance doesn’t seem to delay impact of Fed rate hikes
After comparing economic data of the U.S. and other major advanced economies, we find tentative evidence that the slow adjustment of the outstanding mortgage rate in the U.S. has not played an important role in delaying the intended effects of the monetary tightening.
January 16, 2024